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...male tourists were suspected of arranging a wedding last year in Lamu, a coastal town in Kenya, a mob of 2,000 hounded them, forcing them to hide in a hall of a museum where the ceremony was to take place. "In African culture the act is forbidden," says Philip Mwangi, a security guard at a Nairobi supermarket. "People get angry when they hear about it. Why should a man marry another man when we have so many rural ladies hanging there...
...Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley used to spend weekends at their family's cabin on the Lake of the Ozarks. John would always say to his brother, "Wes, what is our objective for the weekend...
Speaking from his roost in a rafter of the Forbidden City, the bird demanded that the Lampoon endorse the "One Ibis" policy before negotiations for reunification could begin. Thresky said he would return from China peacefully when the magazine removes the impostor ibis currently on top of the castle and publicly acknowledges his royal sovereignty, he said...
...healthy rivalry and gives students an excuse to turn pre-game tailgates into a midday bacchanalia. But by order of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, the ubiquitous kegs of beer that ringed the stadium and populated the business school parking lot this year are now forbidden. Although Lewis is right to be concerned about both safety and students who become drunk and rowdy, banning kegs does not solve the problem of irresponsible drinking and might even make it worse...
...been warning that the U.S. economy is in for hard times. He may steer clear himself of the term recession. "Possible slowdown" is one way he puts it. But dirty work is what Vice Presidents are for. So Dick Cheney has been sent out to say the forbidden word. As early as Dec. 3, he was on Meet the Press warning that the nation "may well be on the front edge of a recession...